Keep the deployed SD target and layout, select qualified internal delta storage when no card is usable, and retain exact SD bootloader-update gates. Add storage, capability, transfer, recipe, and release-selection regression coverage.
Also preserve mandatory runtime packet logging in canonical XIAO images when verbose build debugging is disabled, fixing the four stopped release-matrix qualification failures.
Use a bounded uzlib-derived block encoder with the existing strict tinf decoder, qualify infrastructure roles, budget temporary RAM, and cache running-image metadata. Add self-serve CLI and policy, USB host-loss sleep grace, hardware test harnesses, regression tests, and CI coverage.
Keep Companion and Terminal Chat profiles unchanged; retain full-sensor and reduced-sensor OTA builds. Add compact crypto and OTA names, qualified display asset compression, font license packaging, and scope regression tests.
Use a bounded timed OTA forwarding cache while preserving echo, queue, TempRadio and forwarding-policy guards. Add opt-in manifest recovery for directly reachable legacy relays and interactive 125 kHz SF5/SF6/SF7 rehearsals, with regression tests and documentation.
Accept preamble-bearing TempRadio status from newer firmware while retaining legacy replies. Keep the 20-minute hard minimum but make the 120-minute and timeout estimates advisory, with a window-only override. Add parser, rehearsal, relay identity, and RAK bootloader regression coverage.
Add acknowledged SetFs and packet-cache shortcuts for SX1262, extend the LR1110 FS-mode fast path with buffered SPI, and keep the expander-backed Indicator on its previous path. Include HIL fixtures, validation notes, and regression tests.
Skip redundant modulation writes during owned fast RX retunes when the last
acknowledged SF/BW/CR/LDRO tuple matches. Invalidate that cache after ordinary
setters, failed writes, and lifecycle changes.
Include the remaining scan, preamble, settling, and memory-soak experiments,
their collectors, validation notes, and original capture records. Preserve
capture bytes across checkouts and keep private soak credentials local.
Run lab collector and compiled contract tests in CI. Update the expectation,
profile mapping, and result-buffer tests for the extended lab tools, and make
the private WiFi override header optional for ordinary soak diagnostics.
Validation: 145 host tests passed from the staged source snapshot. Clean
heltec_v4_repeater and Xiao_S3_WIO_companion_radio_usb builds passed their
RAM/flash gates. All 229 staged capture files retain their original bytes;
all 75 local documentation links resolve in the clean snapshot.
Support fractional seconds, guard active packet work, keep the MCU awake, and restore reception after carrier tests. Include regression coverage and independent-radio RF validation for the V4 and T1000-E.
Keep TCXO warm during owned dual-profile retunes, batch modulation setup, and enable guarded fast RX with buffered 8 MHz SPI on XIAO S3 WIO and Indicator LoRa. Preserve lifecycle invalidation, packet guards, rollback, and existing scheduling budgets.
Add reliable sequence-scoped USB lab transport, native regression coverage, bounded channel and preamble diagnostics, and byte-exact measurement records including failed experiments and qualification limits.
Implement radio2, tempradio2, radioat2 and tempradioat2 across Mesh roles,
with RX-only/RX+TX operation, optional preambles and persistent cross-TX
policy. Keep temporary OTA traffic on its profile by default and maintain
independent retry ownership and backoff for each profile.
Use slow-first receive scanning with 4.8-symbol visits and automatic
preambles rounded up in steps of eight. Preserve pending RX, restore power
saving on exit, and discard work bound to changed or expired profiles.
Restore the infrastructure path.hash.mode setter and report unsupported
extra.sf settings consistently. Add CLI, scheduling, scan and retry tests,
setup documentation, and the V4/XIAO hardware validation results.
Validation: 1,422 native tests, eight KISS tests, 63 final focused profile
tests, 18 checks from the staged source, sanitizer-enabled OTA transfers,
and builds for V4 Mesh roles, Full XIAO Companion and nRF52 T1000-E.
Hardware checks cover reception, cross-TX policy, expiry, reboot and OTA
discovery while receiving main-channel adverts.
mikecarper